SMIT researchers win Best Policy Paper award

On October 15th 2008, SMIT researchers Simon Delaere and Pieter Ballon received the Best Policy Paper award at the 2008 IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic  Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN), with a paper entitled "Multi-level standardization and business models for cognitive radio: the case of the Cognitive Pilot Channel".

The paper analyses the transition in telecommunications from linear standardization taking place mainly in the domain of formal Standardization Organizations, to a highly complex and multi-layered process simultaneously involving formal organizations, informal bodies and industrial consortia. It subsequently discusses the development of a Cognitive Pilot Channel to show how innovation in telecommunications markets is determined by this complex interplay, and also explores how the collaborative process between research, regulation and standardization of a Cognitive Pilot Channel in different standardization platforms (viz. IEEE SCC41 and ETSI TC RRS) might influence the eventual deployment of such a cognitive radio technology and networks and services enabled by it, as well as the business models for it. For doing this, an exploratory business model scorecard analysis is performed on some of the different revenue sharing models coming out of diverging design choices of the CPC.

DySPAN 2008, which was held in Chicago (IL), has emerged as the preeminent event to gather international economists, engineers, network architects, researchers and academic scholars together to share cutting edge research on and demonstrations of emerging wireless technology. Since the original DySPAN symposium in 2005, the DySPAN community has had a major influence on policy and technology research and development in the United States, Europe and Asia. At this year´s event, SMIT´s work as applauded for its interdisciplinarity, clear research agenda and relevant results.

More information: http://smit.vub.ac.be and http://www.ieee-dyspan.org/2008/